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When we’re asked for our top tips on any management or leadership communications topic it can be difficult to narrow it down to a shortlist of three to five. Picking just one for presentation skills is torture!
But that’s exactly what we were asked to do for the video put together to promote our 2 hour session on Powerful Presentations at the Institute of Leadership and Management.
As anyone who has been on one of my Leadership, Line Management or Influencing training courses will tell you I like to quote old Aristotle and his theory of Ethos, Pathos and Logos. That’s not the Three Musketeers (though that’s how I remember them) but the triangle of values, emotions and logic that Aristotle claimed were inextricably linked.
Around 2000 years later science is proving him correct. A report in the Wall Street Journal details the findings of fascinating new research in a field called ‘Neuroeconomics’, which shows that there is a link between emotions and financial decision making.
Many people find networking events awkward and approach with them with a sinking heart. Unfortunately they refuse to go away with many companies insisting that their staff network with clients. My experience is that what you often see at such events is large clusters of staff talking to each other and clients left to fend for themselves.
Conferences are another trial. There seem to be groups of people that know each other really well – usually the organizing committee – and then odd pairs of colleagues and a pack of lone wolfs.